Persons
- Diana Villiers Negroponte (born 1947), American trade lawyer
- Fra Antonio da Negroponte, Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period
- John Negroponte (born 1939), diplomat and Deputy Secretary of State; first US Director of National Intelligence
- Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943), computer scientist
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